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Showcasing their skills in technical freeriding and jumps in the deepsnow, the young athletes at the Freeride Junior World Championships (FJWC) in Kappl, Austria, delivered an impressive performance as they competed for the junior world titles on Wednesday, January 24th. The Freeride Junior World Championships 2024 hosted by Open Faces once again provided a great stage for the next generation of freeriding.

The Freeride Junior World Championships (FJWC) returned to Kappl, Austria, Wednesday, 24th January. With junior world titles on the line, competitors held nothing back, and the talented field delivered a top-class display of technical freeriding.

The FWT Junior World Championship (FWT JWC) is the highlight of the freeride juniors on ski and snowboard. On January 20th to 26th 2023, the annual highlight of the season takes place in Kappl-Paznaun, Austria. In challenging runs, the junior athletes show spectacular jumps and drops in the terrain as well as challenging lines through the deep snow. The future of Freeriding looks to be in safe hands with a continually impressive level of riding from Junior athletes. Despite the challengi...

The jury's evaluations are tight, which is evident, in the Ski Women category. Hannah Gruber (ITA), ski instructor and model from Italy, is able to prevail here with 2 safe jumps and a quick pace. Only three tenths separate second and third place. Emma Ledet (DEN) narrowly has to admit defeat to the Austrian Amelie Rosa Deniffel, who starts the race with a great choice of lines and a good dose of self-confidence. It is also close for the Ski Men - only 5 points separate places 1-5. At the...

The first Open Faces qualifier competition of the season started with prime conditions and a triple victory for Austria in the men’s ski category. The freeride hotspot Kappl / Paznaun served as the venue for an OPEN FACES stop for the 11th time. The freeriders met at the “Stoamandl” for the 2* FWT Qualifier and “Kapplaska” has once again lived up to its name. The rider field with 71 international starters promised to be a show. The jury's evaluations are tight, which is evident, in the Ski...

With the 2* FWT Qualifier Stop Kappl/Paznaun, the season of the Austrian OPEN FACES Freeride Series 2024 is starting! From the “secret spot” to one of the most popular freeride destinations in the scene – “Kapplaska” with its countless freeride opportunities once again provides the stage for the first stop of the OPEN FACES Freeride Series. The first points of the Austrian Qualifier Series will be awarded at the 2* Freeride World Tour Qualifier Contest.

The important 1* FWT Qualifier and 2* FWT Junior Event took place last Saturday for the seventh time in the Ski Juwel Alpbachtal Wildschönau and was a high-quality qualifier event, both in terms of the quality of the rider field and the on-site implementation.

Three premieres went down in the Open Faces books: Olivia Riedl caused cheers in the snowboard women’s category with two backflips in her competition run and both a double frontflip and a double backflip in men’s categories showed the insane level at this 1* qualifier contest. Snowboard Men Sebastian Kepplinger and Philipp Lanjus ensured an Austrian double victory in the category of snowboard men. Kepplinger showed a self-confident run from start to finish and delivered many jumps. Des...

The 3-Star Qualifier on the legendary Quellspitze attracts every year numerous top-class riders to use the challenging face for the first important points for the qualifier ranking. This year the Quellspitze was especially challenging. Only a few days before the Junior World Championships took place on the face and the cold nights and therefore rather hard conditions really demanded the last reserves of energy from every single rider to reach the finish. With a good choice of lines, however,...

Here are the impressive winning runs of amazing freeriding! After 2 times postponement due to weather conditions, the time had come last weekend. The most important World Tour Qualifier Series in Europe celebrated the start of the 10th season with the 3* FWT Qualifier & 2* FWT Junior competition. In difficult conditions and weather-related delays, the riders showed their absolute class and offered top-class performances with many "3s" and backflips on the Quellspitze in Kappl/Paznaun.

The Freeride Junior World Championships (FJWC) returned to Kappl, Austria, Thursday, 24th January. The Quellspitze offering its intimidating beauty in pristine condition to the world’s best young freeriders.

Open Faces Kick Off 3* FWT Qualifier / 2* FWT Junior Kappl / Paznaun planned for 14.01.2023 After the postponement of last week, the Open Faces Kick Off in Kappl / Paznaun for the 10th anniversary should take place next weekend 14 January 2023. With the coming fresh snow would be prepared for the 10th anniversary of an international freeride contest in Kappl.

The Open Faces Freeride Series is back with 4 important World Qualifier stops and own Open Faces Academy Camps for everyone. The grand finale of the World Tour Challenger Contests at the end of the 2023 season will be a Freeride Week with an extensive program and the stars of the freeride scene.

Alessandro Jossen from Switzerland, tackled a line that was unique on this day. He used the dangerous rocks right at the start for a first 360 into the absolute "no fall zone". Shortly thereafter he followed up on a rock with another even slightly "corked 3" and then a little later used a large cornice for a massive backflip. The rest of the journey was ultimately just a formality. With 89.67 points, he secured his third 3* contest in his young freeride career and 600 euros in prize money....

Swiss Sara Andresen prevailed with a fluid and technically clean line. Sara is known for her freestyle snowboard tricks and was able to convince with a 180y and several good airtimes on this difficult face. The Open Faces Series 2022 demands real skill of the professional freeriders from all over the world who compete in a 1* and a challenging 4* qualifier to thrill their fans. Many international top freeriders in skiing and snowboarding are expected at the Open Faces Freeride Contest at...

The Austrian Vicky Candlin was able to prevail in the women's ski category. Vicky relied on a fluid run and used the rocky terrain of the Quellspitze for many drops and smaller airtimes to win with 55.67 points. The Open Faces Series 2022 demands real skill of the professional freeriders from all over the world who compete in a 1* and a challenging 4* qualifier to thrill their fans. Many international top freeriders in skiing and snowboarding are expected at the Open Faces Freeride Contest...

Snowboard Men It was all stars and stripes on the podium today with three young Americans leading the pack. Jesse Aves (USA-1st Place) and Holden Samuels (USA- 2nd Place) proved that age is only a number as they both launched into two of the biggest airs seen this season for the category, respectively styling it out with grabs the whole way down to take the top two podium positions. Andrew Kraatz (USA-3rd Place) showed big mountain confidence and technical skill with a steep and creati...

Inflik Media brings you an action packed ski movie featuring the best young talent in BC. Follow the crew as we head across the province going from Panorama to Whistler and everywhere in between. Starring: Michael Brush, Kieran Nikula, Jake Teuton, Patrick Monteith, Tyson Oland, Zack Opheim, Myll Lucas, Rylan Kappler, And Friends. inflikmedia.com/​#/​home/​